Gnome users who have tried KDE: convince me!

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:26:10 +0000, Robert Spanjaard wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:59:41 -0500, Scott wrote:
> 
>> On 09-12-28 06:03 PM, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
>>> Like most modern filemanagers, Nautilus can have as many 'screens' as
>>> you want. There's no need for a fixed split-screen anymore. Just open
>>> an extra window.
>> I find it very annoying opening multiple windows then sizing them to
>> make them fit nicely side by side.  I prefer to simply press a button
>> instead to split the screen.
> 
> I would agree with you if I had a reason to constantly fit them nicely
> side by side, but I don't. :-)
> 
> Ofcourse, in case of emergency, you could create a 2-line script to run
> Nautilus twice with a fixed size and position, and put the script in
> your menus instead of nautilus itself. Something like this:
> 
> nautilus --no-desktop --geometry=640x700+0+0 &
> nautilus --no-desktop --geometry=640x700+640+0
> 
> And because the split-screen isn't fixed, you can do the same for three,
> four, or twenty windows if you want to.

I forgot to add that size and position might need a little tweaking, 
because the window decorations are probably ignored by --geometry.



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